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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2003
Kunitake Matsushita, Shizuoka, JP;
Hiroshi Sano, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshihiko Nagata, Shizuoka, JP;
Minebea Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
In a motor, a shaft passes through a magnet of a rotor and is fixed to the magnet by way of a rotor sleeve formed by resin-molding between the magnet and the shaft. A resin-molded boss is fixed to a front end of a stator, has a center hole, and defines an inner surface continuous from the center hole and beveled so as to obliquely face a front end of the rotor sleeve. A plurality of bearing balls are rotatably disposed between the front end of the rotor sleeve and the beveled inner surface of the boss, thereby constituting a ball bearing which rotatably supports the shaft. Thus, the shaft is prevented from bowing, whereby the motor achieves a high rotational accuracy of the shaft without an additional bearing attached separately.